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Opening a conversation with the wedge had a flaw: a reply might already be sitting in the timeline as its own post, so expanding its parent put the same words on screen twice. Now, when replies open under a post, any of them that were standing in the timeline fold into the conversation — every post appears exactly once. Close the wedge and they return to their places. If your cursor was on one of those posts, it follows it into the conversation. (Theme v0.5.316.)

Don Park signed up — welcome! — and reported that the account-name help text said "Name must be 4 chars." when longer names clearly work. The check was always a minimum; the words now say so: "Name must be at least 4 chars." Dave applied the fix. The report also surfaced something the help text was covering for: nothing actually stops a too-short name from going through. That enforcement is on the todo list.

The icon labels added yesterday were the theme's guesses, mapped from icon names. Dave gave each icon a title of its own in the app's data, and the theme now displays exactly those — theme designers get the app's words, not their own inventions. Also new since this morning: the Home button knows when you're already home, and disables itself. (Theme v0.5.315.)

Donald Luu, former president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, claims his accuser violated a settlement deal by going public.

On Truth Social, Trump once again announced he will not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act into law, but as the waiting period expires, it automatically becomes law. The Housing Bill had wide bipartisan support and passed the Senate and the House easily; if Trump si...

The mysterious barricades, 1961 #magritte #surrealism

By confronting China politically while becoming economically dependent, the US violated basic game theory. To reach a stable multipolar world, we must build supply chain resilience.

Fox: I think JD Vance, on economics, just generally does not understand the role of capitalism and investment and so forth

“In a video promoted directly by the White House, a series of drivers pulls up to a red-, white- and blue-colored gas station and thanks President Donald Trump by name for the low prices advertised by a mysterious new business: Freedom Fuel,” NOTUS reports. “Despite the video’s suggestion that Trump had something to do with […]

BYD’s low-cost Seagull EV, sold as the Dolphin Surf in Europe, is getting another update with a longer body and a more powerful motor.

Stewarded open source is not enough: who can cut you off?

The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.

The Trump administration has tapped Matthew M. Wielicki, a climate change denier, to lead the government's flagship report on the effects of climate change. Wielicki has complained about the “false climate emergency narrative” and called the negative effects of climate change "very minor."

Get started with cross-document view transitions for use in your multi-page application (MPA).

The View Transition API lets you add transitions between views of a website.